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True-colour MODIS satellite image of South Africa (Image: NASA)
25 Aug 2015
Agreement between Airbus and SANSA on SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 imagery
Satellite image of smoke produced by massive explosions in Tianjin (Image: NASA)
24 Aug 2015
Satellites assist emergency response after the Tianjin blasts
Records of the typhoon's eye and its structure on August 19 (Image: NASA)
21 Aug 2015
Striking records of typhoon Atsani
Launch of previous satellite Morelos II (Image: NASA)
21 Aug 2015
Mexico to launch Morelos 3 satellite to support disaster relief
Hurricanes hitting the U.S. will be easier to predict with the new satellite mission (Image: NASA)
20 Aug 2015
NASA to build an enhanced hurricane-observing satellite mission
Difference from average emissions for 2014 in grams of carbon per square meter per year (Image: NASA)
19 Aug 2015
Satellite observations used to measure how much fires pollute the atmosphere
Group photo of the workshop's participants (Image: RCMRD)
18 Aug 2015
Vulnerability Mapping Workshop held by RCMRD and PREPARED
Participants of the Regional Expert Meeting in Colombia
18 Aug 2015
UN-SPIDER and IGAC conducted a Regional Expert Meeting in Colombia
WorldView-3 getting ready for its launch one year ago (Image: DigitalGlobe)
18 Aug 2015
WorldView-3 satellite sensor completes its first operating year
Satellite image of an isolated settlement in Kano, Nigeria (Image: DigitalGlobe)
17 Aug 2015
Remote sensing for the elimination of polio

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